Werewolf wizard

Su Nan quickly gained the attention of the priests of the Awakening Temple, and soon the youths who had failed their awakening at the Awakening Temple were dismissed.

Of the thirty-plus people, only three remained.

The priests began to tell them about the history of summoners.

A temple priest said: "Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors suddenly dug up a special stone in the ground. The evil thoughts of those who touched this stone would form all kinds of monsters, and these monsters could be sealed within the stone."

"We call these monsters Phantasmal Beasts."

"The attacks of weaker Phantasmal Beasts are mostly mental, while the stronger ones can cause physical harm. We summoners can connect our spiritual power with the monsters in these stone tablets, so we can summon the monsters from within the stone tablets."

"Even after a summoner dies, they can become a Phantasmal Beast monster within the stone tablet."

"Over time, there used to be some countries in this world, but later, these countries all yielded to the temples. Currently, there are seven great temples in this world, each enshrining the most powerful Phantasmal Beasts, known as Phantasmal Beast Gods."

"These temples are proud to enshrine these Phantasmal Beast Gods."

Su Nan asked疑惑道: "Enshrine?"

Priest Uru hinted to Su Nan with his eyes, telling him not to say too much, lest he cause unnecessary trouble.

However, the temple priest was not dissatisfied, but said to Su Nan: "Yes, it is enshrining. Phantasmal Beasts and summoners grow together."

"Phantasmal Beasts, when they accept the temple's offerings, will become more and more powerful, until they become Phantasmal Beast Gods."

"A summoner who possesses a Phantasmal Beast God will become the most important and core high priest of the temple."

The priest continued: "Summoners are divided into First Order, Second Order, Third Order, Fourth Order, Fifth Order, Sixth Order, and Seventh Order."

"At each order, the summoner will have an opportunity to sign a contract with a Phantasmal Beast."

"And a Phantasmal Beast God requires at least a Fifth Order summoner to establish a contract."

The temple priest said: "Alright, you can begin to establish a spiritual connection with your first Phantasmal Beast."

"This is the method for establishing it. As long as you succeed, you will be a First Order summoner of our Phoenix Temple and can become a trainee priest."

"Moreover, each trainee priest will be assigned to the corresponding regional temple to become a local enforcer. Each of our regional temples is the order maintainer of a region."

Su Nan was also given a method for establishing a contract. He glanced at it. It was about forming a soul contract with a stone tablet, which he could easily establish.

This kind of thing was not too much of a burden for him, who was at the limit of a First Ring Wizard.

It's just that this soul contract is too crude.

Compared to the meditation methods of the wizard civilization, it's like a joke.

Su Nan had the AI slightly optimize the structure of this summoner's soul contract. After obtaining the soul contract, the AI suddenly reacted—

[The progress of the Mystical Realm Dust Potion has increased by 45%, currently at 58%!]

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. In these days, the progress of his Mystical Realm Dust Potion was only 13%. But unexpectedly, after he came into contact with this soul contract, it immediately increased by such a large amount.

Su Nan asked the AI the reason in his heart.

The AI indicated—

[By obtaining the soul contract, a new path has been discovered. It is possible to form a soul contract with the Mystical Realm and then transfer the entropy increase to the Mystical Realm.]

[Contacting different civilizations, even relatively low-level civilizations, can yield many inspirations from the unique civilization paths developed by the other party.]

Su Nan nodded, deeply agreeing.

Su Nan used a very short time to complete the establishment of the soul contract in his sea of consciousness. This thing was originally crude and did not require too much time to construct.

At this time, he and the other two summoner apprentices were already preparing to search for a summoned beast in the Awakening Temple.

Su Nan closed his eyes and began to release his spiritual traits, searching for a summoned beast that matched his spiritual traits.

As a result, all the stone tablets in the entire hall were vibrating.

Su Nan frowned. Most of the stone tablets in the Phoenix Temple were avian, so he finally chose a firebird stone tablet that seemed to have decent strength.

Suddenly, his spiritual characteristic mark appeared on the firebird stone tablet. At the same time, the firebird stone tablet, which was originally gray and dull without any color, suddenly showed a ball of bright red flames.

The flames on the firebird stone tablet outlined a firebird with its head held high.

This firebird's power entered his soul contract, turning the soul contract in his sea of consciousness into a ball of flames.

The firebird shared its power with him.

It's just… such a little power. Su Nan raised his eyebrows, it was as if there was nothing at all.

That firebird was only at the level of a Second Class Wizard Apprentice.

The four priests in the temple had already begun to applaud. They seemed extremely excited, discussing in low voices.

[That is a very rare quality stone tablet, the best stone tablet for the First Order summoning stage.]

[I'm so envious, his talent is really good. It seems that as long as we take him to headquarters to receive the final priest investiture ceremony, we can receive rewards.]

Su Nan glanced at them.

Very good, these natives can already take him into the headquarters of the Phoenix Temple.

It seems that before undergoing the priest investiture, he will have to receive a period of ideological education.

That makes sense.

Otherwise, this native plane's Phoenix Temple would be freely cultivating summoners.

The temple priest coughed and said, "Everyone should have linked with their first summoned beast, right? A summoner's first summoned beast almost determines everything, so the rarer and more powerful the initial summoned beast, the greater the potential."

He glanced at Su Nan. "But you must put away your pride. We temple priests take pride in maintaining the temple."

"Summoned beasts are born from the malice within humans, so if your willpower is insufficient, you will be backlashed by the summoned beast and killed by the stone slab."

"Conversely, the higher your willpower, the better you can tame the summoned beast. Once you tame it, you can use your willpower to strengthen it."

"More than half of the Phantom Beast Gods became Phantom Beast Gods because they became the summoned beasts of powerful summoners."

"So, willpower is the most crucial thing for us summoners."

The temple priest said, "We summoners may lack talent, but we must never be weak-willed."

"We summon courage to resist fear."

"Alright, let's go."

In the afternoon, Su Nan joined them on a carriage, following the convoy to the Phoenix Temple headquarters.

Su Nan was happy to see this happen and pestered the priests with many questions during the journey, learning about the common knowledge of this world.

Inside the carriage, Su Nan was alone with Priest Uru. Due to his 'talent,' he received exceptional treatment, not having to squeeze into a carriage with the apprentices but instead riding with Priest Uru in a carriage with soft, high-quality wool blankets.

Su Nan asked Priest Uru, "Mr. Uru, so, at the Phoenix Temple headquarters, there is the largest inheritance temple, which even contains Phantom Beast Gods and methods for establishing contracts with them?"

Su Nan was almost certain that if he could obtain information about soul contracts related to Phantom Beast Gods, he could greatly advance the progress of his Secret Realm Dust potion.

Moreover, he already had a Rank 2 Wizard Tower, and not just one, only lacking a Rank 2 spell model.

But he had already instructed the AI to deduce it. Furthermore, he possessed the Golden Headhunter magic and the Rank 2 spell model information from the Death Scythe potion system. Plus, he already knew the characteristics of Rank 2 magic, which was extreme magic, so he could completely establish a Rank 2 spell model.

Even that trash Golden Wizard could establish one, let alone himself.

And Su Nan Peter chose the city where the Phoenix Temple headquarters was located as the place to become a Rank 2 wizard.

Inside the carriage, Father Uru still thought that Su Nan was simply interested in the big city and the Phoenix Temple headquarters. He said excitedly, "Of course, the Phoenix Temple headquarters has everything."

"It is the largest city in this world."

"Don't be dazzled when you get there, kid."

"The Phoenix Temple headquarters itself is the largest summoned beast stone slab temple, so it has everything."

Father Uru said, "By the way, a few days ago, the Black Tortoise Temple issued a warning to the entire world, saying that their Rank 7 summoner sensed power from outside the world, attacking our world a total of seven times."

"I don't know if it's true or false."

"What do they mean by outside the world? Isn't outside the world just a void? They previously used their most powerful Phantom Beast God to enter the void and searched for a long time, trying to find creatures other than us, but found nothing."

"I suspect the Black Tortoise Temple is overthinking it."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. It seemed that this flat, square plane was now at a stage where it could recognize that their world was not the only one and could temporarily leave the plane's boundary and enter the void.

However, because they didn't have a Rank 2 Wizard Tower, they couldn't even do short-distance navigation in the void, so they probably hadn't discovered other planes.

Therefore, they still believed that they were the only civilization in the entire void.

Su Nan thought that if the Prime Material Plane hadn't naturally overlapped with many planes in the void, creating plane passages, perhaps the wizard civilization society would have also entered such a misunderstanding for a period of time.

However, according to the wizard inheritance records he had obtained, the orthodox wizard society should have realized very early on that they were not the only civilization and had engaged in plane travel.

Su Nan was about to say something when he suddenly raised an eyebrow and said to Priest Uru, "Priest Uru, I want to ask you a question."

Priest Uru raised an eyebrow in dissatisfaction. "Do I look very unserious? You should call me High Priest, I am a Rank 3 priest."

Su Nan didn't care and instead said, "Does our temple... have any mortal enemies?"

Priest Uru was stunned for a moment.

The next moment, the carriage was knocked over by something. A huge black bull smashed the carriage Su Nan was in into two pieces, and Su Nan raised an eyebrow.

Outside the carriage, a voice shouted. "Ah ha ha ha, I heard that your Phoenix Temple branch recently got another genius who actually contracted a Firebird."

"If our Bull Demon Temple kills him, wouldn't your Phoenix Temple feel a lot of pain? Hahaha!"